Made me think of the guy in Shallow Hal who walked on his hands... Rene Kirby I think.

Pretty amazing that she is able to get around like that on the basketball. One of the articles I saw about her said she's worn out six basketballs thus far. Does she have enough leg left to move the prostheses? From her position on the ball it doesn't look that way.

I also remember seeing photos once of a boy with no legs who got around by scooting on a skateboard, pushing with his hands.

Ok. My turn to be non-PC:
What do you call a kid with no arms & no legs lying on the front porch?
Matt.
What do you call a kid with no arms & no legs in the water?
Bob.
What do you call a kid with no arms & no legs hanging on the wall?
Art.
What do you call a kid with no arms & no legs waterskiing?
Skip.
What do you call a kid with no arms & no legs under your car?
Jack.

Ok. I'll stop. But those are the jokes I'd be telling if I were in her shoes. (Uh oh. I'm in trouble now!)

Wow. That's kinda like carbon credits.

What happens if someone puts a sticker like this on a real bomb?

The thing what makes this topic worthy of Neatorama is seeing how bonkers some posters get when the "truth" they've bought into is challenged, just a little. Gotta love it when the name-calling starts; shows the true colors.

You can count it as a job well done, Alex, when you pi$s off both sides. Keep up the good work!

Hypocrite indeed. Gore is known to fly to his $170,000 a pop speaking gigs in a private jet (using God only knows how many gallons of JP4 in the round trip), where he then demands to be driven to & from said gig in a hybrid vehicle. Wiktionary should have a mug shot of AlGore heading up the entry on hypocrite.

As for Gore's global warming schtick, if we're all so sure that the global climate is warming, what happened to the impending ice age that the same so-called scientists were warning of 25-30 years ago? If the earth is really billions of years old, the few hundred years' worth of records we currently have isn't enough to predict any kind of trend.

That gave me a great mental image, Mokuwai; a guy goose-stepping around with a little Atari-style control stick in hand to steer himself! Sounds like a Monte Python skit.

Yeah, I know if the technology were to be developed it'd be a lot more seamless than that, but that just hit me as funny!

Nope. You're not kidding.

When I first heard about this, my first thought was about a tattoo shop near here; for a while, the name on the sign was "The Ultimate Prick". The neighbors didn't much like it.

More photos of that bike and details about the Coasting system at Bike Gallery.

I'd have to agree with Silky; this is 95% marketing and 5% innovation. The Coasting gimmick is basically a 3-speed hub with a fancy gizmo that does the shifting for you. How much help should anyone need for 3 speeds? The problem with the concept is that a fancy bike will get people to ride for the short term, but it'll soon be hanging in the garage, unused. Getting people to ride bikes regularly in the real world will take more than a gimmick like Coasting.

The work part is what keeps most people from using bikes more; heck, I'd ride a bike to work 11 months of the year (and I live in the currently frozen North) if I didn't have to worry about other people smelling me all day in the office. The thing that would make bicycling really take off is adding an electric or gas motor to the bike to make the commute easier, and make terrain less of an issue. I'm considering the purchase of one such electric unit for myself; some start at about $200, and many are pretty darned simple to install.

If bike companies would start making turn-key bikes with electric or gas assist more mainstream and more affordable, you'd see them everywhere.

Agreed; world's strangest dino names. But what gets me is all phony Latin-ification going on with them. If you're gonna name the thing after Mick Jagger, just do it and don't mess with the AEGROTOCATELLUS JAGGERI bs.

Methinks that anthropologists are just a bit full of themselves.

Yeah, what Denita said. This little girl is on track for a decent career as a web geek. I'd love to see what she's up to in 10-15 years.

I've got an 8 year-old son, and most any computer time he has is spent in lame online arcade games. I'd absolutely love for him to be even moderately interested in the code that makes the games or the pages work. Most days he can be found running around the house with his Bionicles making battle noises.

Very tricky illusion there.

See how easy it is to fool the human brain? No wonder they’re having such a tussle in Kansas over teaching science!

Yeah. Some people just can't get over the fact that evolution is not and cannot be proven true. ;o) (how the hey did that topic come up?)

That's one good pilot to keep the thing on the deck after the tail rotor is rendered useless. Landing/launching on a deck that's heaving like that has got to be a difficult thing.

I think the Solzhenitsyn anecdote was in reference to an ancient fish that were found frozen in ice. I think it was in The Gulag Archipelago.

That Yellowstone supervolcano is downright frightening. I guess everybody's got to go sometime, but does everyone in the Midwest have to go at the same time?

As everyone else seems to be concerned about proper use of grammar in this post, the sentence...
But the mysterious nature of the event has lead to a whole literature of ludicrous theories,
should use the word "led" instead of "lead".

Sorry. Recovering English minor.